Sarah Caldwell

Sarah Caldwell, RTF ’97, is the weekday morning traffic reporter and News at Noon anchor at WBAL-TV 11 in Baltimore. She also posts TrafficPulse 11 updates on WBAL-TV 11’s page on Facebook.

Prior to joining WBAL-TV in 2002, Caldwell worked for WTXF in Philadelphia, where she got her start reporting traffic right after graduating from Temple University. There, she transitioned into sports reporting, and even dabbled in weather. Caldwell lives in Harford County, Md., with her two boys.

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Decoding the Race Baiting of Modern Media
Eric Deggans, National Public Radio
Tuesday, March 10, 5:00-6:30
Annenberg Hall Atrium
NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans explores how media outlets use prejudice, stereotypes and racism to [...]

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Decoding the Race Baiting of Modern Media

Eric Deggans, National Public Radio

Tuesday, March 10, 5:00-6:30

Annenberg Hall Atrium

NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans explores how media outlets use prejudice, stereotypes and racism to generate audiences and profits. The result is an audience weaned on mistaken ideas about race difference and culture, struggling to communicate across lines of difference. Using examples ranging from media coverage of protests in Ferguson, MO to clips from the reality TV show Big Brother, Deggans deconstructs how different types of racism manifest in modern media, expanding on material from his book, Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation.

Eric Deggans is NPR’s first full-time TV critic. He came to NPR from the Tampa Bay Times newspaper in Florida, where he served as TV/Media Critic and in other roles for nearly 20 years. He has guest hosted CNN’s media analysis show, Reliable Sources, several times, and has contributed as a freelance columnist to CNN.com, Salon, Poynter.org and the Huffington Post. He has appeared as a pundit/expert on a number of CNN shows, including Piers Morgan Tonight. His work has appeared in a host of newspapers and magazines ranging from the conservativeNewsmax magazine to theNew York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Detroit News, Miami Herald, Hispanic magazineand Ebony magazine. Deggans is author of Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation, a look at how prejudice, racism and sexism fuels some elements of modern media, published in October 2012 by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Animalizing India: Emerging Signs of an Unruly Market

Radhika Parameswaran, Indiana University Bloomington

Friday, March 13, 2:30-4:00

Annenberg Hall Atrium

Analyzing the rise and fall of Indonesia’s status in globalization’s finance-scape, cultural anthropologist Anna Tsing notes that an “economy of appearances” drives the search for new economic frontiers at historic moments when global capital seeks wild creativity rather than stable reproduction. In the creative logic of globalization’s capitalist modes of operation, profit must be imagined before it can be extracted; a nation’s possibility of economic performance must be conjured like a spirit to motivate an audience of investors, politicians, lawmakers, and citizens to believe in the promise of a linked global future.

Focusing on recent artistic and photojournalistic portraits of India as an animal—an elephant or tiger—that wanders alone or sometimes with another animal companion—dragon or panda bear—called China, this presentation analyzes the ways in which India’s potential and pitfall as an emerging market and a rising power is being conjured in the “economy of appearances” produced by magazine and non-fiction book covers. Even as an outpouring of verbal discourse from business and policy experts has hailed an India that is transitioning from a peripheral third world nation to a lucrative participant in the global service and market economy, a steady stream of pictures and illustrations, including, those that deploy animal avatars, has sought to illuminate the vicissitudes of India’s newfound economic recognition. Parameswaran’s tracking of the visual semiotics of India’s animal imprints seeks to get inside an aesthetic economy of appearances in which zoological embodiments play a role in arbitrating this non-western, postcolonial nation’s risky prospects for entry into economic globalization’s newly minted scale of “emerging market.”

Radhika Parameswaran is Professor in the Media School (Department of Journalism) and adjunct faculty in the cultural studies, India Studies, and gender studies programs at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. She is currently the Editor of Communication, Culture, and Critique, a flagship journal of the International Communication Association. She was a Visiting research professor at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Faculty-in-Residence at University of Colorado, Boulder; Invited expert at the NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar; and a Research expert twice for junior faculty workshops at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the recipient of six top research paper awards (five from AEJMC and one from ICA). Her publications include a 2013 Wiley-Blackwell edited encyclopedic volume on global audience studies, two monograph articles, 26 articles in leading journals in communication and media studies (five reprinted as book chapters), and thirteen book chapters. Her research has been published in a variety of academic journals, including, Journal of Children & Media, Communication, Culture, & Critique, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication Theory, Qualitative Inquiry, Communication Review, and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. She is a member of the advisory board of the Mellon-funded “Framing the Global” project at Indiana University, Bloomington and an editorial board member of Asian Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Communication Monographs, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, and Journal of Communication Inquiry. She serves as a mentor for the Department of Journalism’s honors program, and she is the recipient of three outstanding teaching awards from the School of Journalism.

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America's Battle for Media Democracy
Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
Thursday, March 19, 2:15-3:30
Annenberg Hall 3
How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few [...]

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America’s Battle for Media Democracy

Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania

Thursday, March 19, 2:15-3:30

Annenberg Hall 3

How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media-policy battles in the 1940s, Pickard explains how this happened and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, he uncovers the American media system’s historical roots and normative foundations. Pickard charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. As much about the present and future as about the past, he proposes policies for remaking media based on democratic values for the digital age.

Victor Pickard is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication. His research explores the intersections of U.S. and global media activism and politics, the history and political economy of media institutions, and the normative foundations of media policy. Before coming to Annenberg, he was an assistant professor in the media, culture, and communication department at New York University. Previously he worked on media policy in Washington, D.C. as a senior research fellow at the media reform organization Free Press and the public policy think tank the New America Foundation. He also taught media policy at the University of Virginia and served as a media policy fellow for Congresswoman Diane Watson.

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24mar12:30 pm- 1:30 pmIt's Always Time to Talk about Social Identity IntersectionalitiesDonnalyn Pompper, Temple University

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It's Always Time to Talk about Social Identity Intersectionalities
Donnalyn Pompper, Temple University
Tuesday, March 24, 12:30-1:30
Annenberg Hall 3
While organizations’ managers seek to foster harmonious workplaces – and social researchers work to build [...]

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It’s Always Time to Talk about Social Identity Intersectionalities

Donnalyn Pompper, Temple University

Tuesday, March 24, 12:30-1:30

Annenberg Hall 3

While organizations’ managers seek to foster harmonious workplaces – and social researchers work to build theory for greater predictability and understanding – rarely do we talk about how to overcome challenges that may derive from differences between ourselves and the people we write about. Fundamentally, such challenges may negatively impact one’s willingness to expand worldviews for embracing diverse social identities and researchers’ ability to question them as a legitimate arena of inquiry in the first place. Pompper addresses the importance of an intersectionalities approach to understanding how people embody more than a single dimension of age, class, culture, ethnicity, faith/spirituality, gender, physical/psychological ability, sexual orientation, and more.

Donnalyn Pompper, Ph.D., APR, an associate professor working in the School of Media & Communication at Temple University, teaches and publishes about power as it plays out in organizations and media representations. These interests merge among research for the public relations, organizational communication, and media studies literatures. Prior to joining the academy, Pompper worked in corporate public affairs management and as a journalist. She is an internationally recognized scholar who has written Practical and Theoretical Implications of Successfully Doing Difference in Organizations (2014, Emerald Publishing), and the forthcoming Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability, and Public Relations: Negotiating Multiple Complex Challenges (2015, Routledge). She also has co-edited Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience & the Global Justice Movement (2003, Praeger) with Andy Opel. Pompper also has published extensively in academic journals, including Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, Mass Communication & Society, Journal of Applied Communication Research, Journal of Public Relations Research, Public Relations Review, Journal of Organizational Change Management, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, The Journal of Popular Culture, Mass Communication & Society, The Howard Journal of Communications, and International Journal of Strategic Communication.

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An Ideal Worth Defending? Professionalism Amidst Challenges to Autonomy and Boundaries in Journalism
Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University
Friday, April 3, 2:30-4:00
Annenberg Hall Atrium
Current anxiety about the future of news makes it [...]

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An Ideal Worth Defending? Professionalism Amidst Challenges to Autonomy and Boundaries in Journalism

Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University

Friday, April 3, 2:30-4:00

Annenberg Hall Atrium

Current anxiety about the future of news makes it opportune to revisit the notion of professionalism in journalism. Silvio Waisbord takes this pressing issue as his theme and argues that “professional journalism” is both a normative and analytical notion. It refers to reporting that observes certain ethical standards as well as to collective efforts by journalists to exercise control over the news. Professionalism should not be narrowly associated with the normative ideal as it historically developed in the West during the past century. Instead, it needs to be approached as a valuable concept to throw into sharp relief how journalists define conditions and rules of work within certain settings. Professionalization is about the specialization of labor and control of occupational practice. These issues are important, particularly amidst the combination of political, technological and economic trends that have profoundly unsettled the foundations of modern journalism. By doing so, they have stimulated the reinvention of professionalism. This engaging and insightful book critically examines the meanings, expectations, and critiques of professional journalism in a global context.

Silvio Waisbord is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University. He is editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Press/Politics. His most recent books are Reinventing Professionalism: News and Journalism in Global Perspective (Polity), Vox Populista (Gedisa), and the edited volume Media Sociology: A Reappraisal (Polity). He is also the author of Watchdog Journalism in South America (Columbia University Press, 2000), and El Gran Desfile (The Great Parade, Sudamericana, 1995), and co-editor of Global Health Communication (Wiley, forthcoming 2012), Media and Globalization: Why the State Matters (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001) and Latin Politics, Global Media (University of Texas Press, 2002). He also wrote the novel Duelo (Biblos Argentina 2009). His areas of interest are journalism and politics, and media and communication in aid, development and social change. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (University of California, San Diego) and a Licenciatura in Sociology (Universidad de Buenos Aires).

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9apr2:15 pm- 3:30 pmResearching the Recent Past: The Enduring Significance of 1995W. Joseph Campbell, American University

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Researching the Recent Past:The Enduring Significance of 1995
W. Joseph Campbell, American University
Thursday, April 9, 2:15-3:30
Annenberg Hall 3
W. Joseph Campbell will discuss his research into the recent past — specifically the watershed [...]

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Researching the Recent Past:The Enduring Significance of 1995

W. Joseph Campbell, American University

Thursday, April 9, 2:15-3:30

Annenberg Hall 3

W. Joseph Campbell will discuss his research into the recent past — specifically the watershed year of 1995 and its enduring significance. It was the year that marked the emergence of the Internet and World Wide Web into mainstream consciousness. It was the year of the Oklahoma City bombing, an attack that killed 168 people and signaled a deepening national preoccupation with terrorism. It was the year of the double-murder trial of O.J. Simpson, a prolonged yet fascinating ordeal often called the “Trial of the Century.” It was the year when a U.S.-brokered peace agreement ended the war in Bosnia, Europe’s most vicious conflict since the time of the Nazis. And it was the year when President Bill Clinton began an intermittent sexual dalliance with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern 27 years his junior; the affair led to Clinton’s impeachment in 1998. Campbell also will address the challenges and rewards of conducting scholarly research into recent history.

W. Joseph Campbell is the author of six books, including most recently 1995: The Year the Future Began (University of California Press, 2015). He also wrote the media myth-busting book, Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism (University of California Press, 2010). Getting It Wrong won the national Sigma Delta Chi award in 2010 for research about journalism. Before entering the academy, Campbell was a newspaper and wire service reporter for 20 years, in a career that took him across North America to Europe, West Africa, and parts of Asia. He earned his PhD at the University of North Carolina in 1997 and soon afterward joined the faculty at American University, where he is now a full professor.